Creepy looking weirdo former Trump defense lawyer-turned Justice Department official-turned federal circuit court nominee Emil Bove said he was willing to defy court orders against deporting people, according to a whistleblower complaint obtained by the New York Times.
The whistleblower, former DOJ lawyer Erez Reuveni, was canned in April for insubordination after he admitted to a federal judge that Kilmar Abrego Garcia should not have been sent to the CECOT dungeon in El Salvador the previous month, with MAGA enforcer Todd Blanche informing Reuveni he had failed to “follow a directive from your superiors” in a suspension notice prior to the firing.
In the complaint Reuveni says he “became aware of the plans of DOJ leadership to resist court orders that would impede potentially illegal efforts to deport noncitizens, and further became aware of the details to execute those plans,” and that “Discouraging clients from engaging in illegal conduct is an important part of the role of a lawyer. Mr Reuveni tried to do so and was thwarted, threatened, fired and publicly disparaged for both doing his job and telling the truth to the court.”
Then during a March 14th meeting Bove told other officials that the Orange God Emperor would soon invoke the Alien Enemies Act to speed up deportations and “stressed to all in attendance that the planes needed to take off no matter what.” Bove then acknowledged “the possibility that a court order would enjoin those removals before they could be effectuated” and “that DOJ would need to consider telling the courts ‘fuck you’ and ignore any such order. Mr Reuveni perceived that others in the room looked stunned, and he observed awkward, nervous glances among people in the room.”
“Silence overtook the room.” Reuveni and the other officials were then “quickly ushered out of the room. Notwithstanding Bove’s directive, Mr Reuveni left the meeting understanding that DOJ would tell DHS to follow all court orders.” As far as Reuveni knew, “no one in DOJ leadership – in any administration – had ever suggested the Department of Justice could blatantly ignore court orders.”
“Especially with” a “fuck you,” the report continues, describing Reuveni as “in disbelief.”
The reporting is very shittily timed for Bove, less than 24 hours before he’s supposed to sit for a confirmation hearing. Already he was facing hot water from Dems over his sabotage of the case against idiot New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Now he’s going to have to sit there and answer how he would feel, as a federal judge, if President Steven A Smith’s administration ignores his order not to print a trillion dollar bill with his face on it and hide it in a box of Wheaties for one lucky winner.
In more seriousness it might be fair to question whether there’ll even be a hearing on Wednesday at all. You may doubt it given the Senate GOP’s thrall to the fat fuck, but Ed Martin arguably didn’t do anything as fucked up as Bove did and he sure as hell didn’t even get a hearing.